Georgia Memorial Database

This interactive database represents the latest effort to develop a comprehensive listing of those from Georgia that died in the service to their country during The Great War. The core of this listing is the original Georgia State Memorial Book, published in 1921. It contains the names and information for approximately 1,200 Georgia military personnel that died of all causes during World War 1.

Due to the social and racial conditions and practices of the time, this 1921 Memorial Book contains the information for only white soldiers. The current project is rectifying this by adding information for Georgia's African-American personnel that also died in service.

Fortunately, the Georgia Department of Veterans Service has developed a listing of WW1 deaths. This GDVS list, containing some 1,900 names, incorporates the Memorial Book names and adds another 700, many of whom are African-American. The entirety of the GDVS list is now incorporated into the Georgia Memorial Database, below.

Additionally, monuments, memorials, and plaques throughout the state of Georgia are yielding names for this Memorial Database that do not appear in either of the two earlier lists. These names are being added as the memorials and plaques are identified and photographed for inclusion elsewhere in this website.